Evolution, Development and Complexity : Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems /: Multiscale Evolutionary Models of Complex Adaptive Systems. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, John M. Smart, Claudio L. Flores Martinez, Michael E. Price.
• Other Names: Georgiev, Georgi Yordanov; Smart, John M; Flores Martinez, Claudio L; Price, Michael E
• Contents: Section 1- Universe -- Chapter 1- Cosmological Natural Selection and the Function of Life -- Chapter 2- Evolutionary Development: A Universal Perspective -- Chapter 3- Life, the Universe, and almost Everything: Signs of Cosmic Design? -- Chapter 4- Universal Ethics: Organized Complexity as an Intrinsic Value -- Chapter 5- Inductive Probabilities in Astrobiology and SETI: Have Sceptics Retreated? -- Section 2- Multiscale Complexity -- Chapter 6- The Equivalence of Free Energy and Information -- Chapter 7- A Multi-scale View of the Emergent Complexity of Life: A Free-energy Proposal -- Chapter 8- Action and Power Efficiency in Self-Organization: Growth Efficiency as a Cellular Objective in E. coli -- Chapter 9- On the Relation Between Swarm and Evolutionary Dynamics and Complex Networks -- Chapter 10- Universal Darwinism and the Origins of Order -- Section 3- Biology -- Chapter 11- Complexity, Development, and Evolution in Morphogenetic Collective Systems -- Chapter 12- Comparative Genomics of Convergent Evolution -- Chapter 13- Why Functional Genomics is Central Concern of Biology and the Hard Problem of Abiogenesis -- Chapter 14- Synergy and the Bioeconomics of Complexity -- Section 4- Society -- Chapter 15- Disease Surveillance: Design Principles from Immunology -- Chapter 16- Special Operations Forces as a Global Immune System -- Chapter 17- Applying Evolutionary Meta-Strategies to Human Problems -- Chapter 18- Complexity Dynamics in Small Groups -- Chapter 19- Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some colour)
• Subjects: 621; Systems biology; Evolution (Biology); Multiscale modeling; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030000752; 3030000753
• Related ISBNs: 9783030000745
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